As an aside to my regular readers: My wife now has a regularly-scheduled medical appointment on Tuesday which I attend. This has made the Wednesday publication of my essays somewhat difficult due to lack of time. I am contemplating a permanent switch to a Friday publication date for my essays, or taking a one-week hiatus to pre-write an essay over the weekend for the week ahead.
There comes a point when Younger Men are no longer cowed by the Ruling Regime's 'Punishments,' Threats, etc. Once there are enough such Men of said disposition, you have the requisite Fearlessness & Courage to (shall we say) try out somewhat more 'audacious things.'
This is especially true for the Younger Bros who are Imprisoned in their Teens to early 20s, & come out in a few months from said forced Summer Vacation. Such experiences Mentally Fortify them & make all Regime talking points (i.e. 'We will Shoot &/or Jail &/or Torture You!') Utterly Moot.
Afterward, all they really need is (1) Proper Training & Know-how & (2) A Reason to Fight. You get both of these, & then it's just a Numbers game culminating in an exciting Field Trip ☺️
Oh, and that big old pot of German gold in the sealed boxcar didn't hurt.
(Fun fact: When I was a grad student, we hosted a Russian physicist at our house for a week. A few hours before he left he was lamenting what had happened to his country. When I told him about the German gold he was incredulous. Alas, the only reference I had handy was a copy of "None Dare Call it Conspiracy." I gave him the copy and he took it to the Soviet Union.
Soon, the Berlin Wall came down, and Vladimir Zhironovsky was a major contender for the Russian presidency. Zhironovsky sounded like he was quoting "None Dare Call it Conspiracy.
I'll take a Doof who acts over a chad who harrumphs.
As I was told when I attended a school at the conservative Leadership Institute: "You are a weirdo." This was addressed to the entire body.
While the number of people who talk politics is huge, the number who actually volunteer to work phone banks, walk neighborhoods, work booths, network with potential affiliate groups, etc. is tiny. This is true even for the major parties. When Ron Paul ran for president as a Republican, a ragtag band of libertarians, hippies and gold bugs filled up enough convention seats to terrify the established powers. They had to rewrite rules as they went in order to keep Ron Paul from speaking to the television audience.
The plan should be two-pronged. On the surface, say things that speak to the hindbrain and promise women, loot, and glory. In private, accumulate wealth and connections to deal in secrets with people of similar influence. Make interpersonal communication great again.
It should also be clear to all within the next few years that all immigrants, in Minecraft, were only ever guests; that everything is money except bank notes; that women will sleep with the winners, but they don’t care who was right; that the rules were written so that those who break them can win—and all of this because we say so. Shift the focus of delta male loyalty away from the rule book.
The emergence of such a theoretical revolutionary movement requires a few things: 1) a coherent theory. It doesn't need to be philosophically sophisticated or even logical, only internally consistant. 2) Simple enough to intice the masses, but subtle enough to be endlessly expanded upon. Complexity is the enemy of successful memes. 3 ) Luck. Like fame and fortune, it's a numbers game. It requires the right person with the right idea at the right time.
I didn't include dedicated followers because that's a variable we have no direct control over. Businesses, entertainers, politicians, everyone needs groupies. The question is how to get them. The answer is: clever marketing. Lenin used a 137 page book. We must make due with 60 second TikTok videos. In the 21st century, regardless of the essentials of the movement, we need to SELL it.
- Make sure you always offer a vision of a better future.
- Provide people with a solid, clear framework for understanding the world that can be easily communicated person-to-person, so that when people are having a conversation about some current event someone can explain that event in the context of the framework. Think how well the "nation of immigrants" trope worked and make something similar.
- Constantly shoot holes in the enemy's worldview, make them look like fools. Show them to be hypocrites and liars. Show that their ideas cause real harm to people. Focus on the harm they are doing.
- Aim for converting the top influential people - most people download their opinions about the world from them. You don't have to convince the world, just a handful of powerful people. They will convince the people. Imagine how a single segment on some mainstream news shows (60 Minutes for example) about HBD could change the world forever. Keep pushing until your reach that turning point.
- Don't ever, ever give up. We will win this. History has and will be changed by small dedicated groups of people.
Hard to think what any unified theory is as the Right is just made up of those who transgressed some Left taboo at some point in history. We all have little in common except hating the Left. "Inequality" or "health" would be the one defining word I think but hard to see how that shakes out
Douglas Hyde’s “Dedication and Leadership” talked about this too. The Lenins / communists of the world asked for huge, sweeping changes - glorious things. No small asks. It worked.
Wow, apologies for being somewhat off-topic, but I watched your linked TEDx talk years ago, with no idea who you were, and had periodically tried to find it again for clearly and concisely making its point, but had had no luck and gave up at some point. Reading this, I followed the link and was shocked to find "that one talk comparing quality of media to quality of food" was by someone who has become a favorite writer and thinker.
So, thanks very much for the talk and for linking to it!
(Also, thanks for this essay and the follow up, they were great, but I don't have anything substantive to add).
Thanks so much for the kind words on my TEDx talk! I'm gratified by the number of people who have mentioned it to me as meaningful or influential. In retrospect (looking at the rise of TikTok etc) it was kind of prophetic... :|
One way to change the course of history is to change the bribe system.
A bit of imagination: there is a new rule for a post-modern taxation system that emphasizes tolerance, inclusion and respect for all lifestyles and states of mind, in order to enhance the resilience of all the moist robots out there who may have felt excluded from public life all these years of sandbox planned chaos with a fake virus. In perfect harmony with that, it is now allowed for ***individuals only*** (nor corporations, churches or families) to be a conscious objector of any form of taxation, impost, tariff or even fines.
We might (might!) see a rush toward Duginist-inspired praxeologies. (I'm not sure, some people really like their BDSM.)
I argue that, because of the world-famous logical consistency of all social demonrats, they would not become conscious objectors. (LMAOOOOO!)
Therefore, only the people who actually like big government projects will be paying for them, as Wotan intended.
Then, the general bribe system and all its subsystems will collapse, and, after the dust settles, the survivors will have to rethink the entire money loan business.
I imagine that before such blissful postmodern legislative reform would pass, the CDC libertarians and their 33 marks of clotshots in their rubber arms would take exception and quickly snipe everyone with witty articles defending the statue quo, emphasizing the importance of Stoic philosophy of endurance and internal freedom, as well as proclaiming that Aristotelian logic should rule "υπέρ όλα" while conceding a couple of minor points to the right Hegelians. Do not push that red button!
Lenin had a very strong personality. And as Adolf von Harnack said in one of his lectures, "Words effect nothing; it is the power of the personality that stands behind them". Maybe that's the lesson we can learn from Lenin.
"A sign of false allegiance (a Litmus Test, if you like) is trying to emulate (to "learn from") the effectiveness of heroes and exemplars of evil. ("Oh, why can't we be more like [fill in the name of some evil success story]?") In sum: Advocating adopting the methods of evil, on the basis that these tactics have a strong track-record of changing the world, that they work.
This is a Litmus Test of evil allegiance because such people have failed to learn that doing evil and doing good are not symmetrical. Evil is much, much easier than good; because destruction is easier than creation.
It requires hard, prolonged and skilled labour to make a functional machine or a beautiful artwork; but any idiot can vandalize them in a moment."
I do not believe that planning, organization, and philosophy are weapons of the enemy. I hold Dr Charlton in high regard but I disagree with him on this.
Charlton's point is that "planning, organization, and philosophy" of evil is completely incompatible with that of the good.
To a large extent I agree with him: one has to be very careful to examine the methods of evil people before adapting them. It is possible, for example, that you cannot separate the wheat from the chaff and murdering millions is an integral part of the method and it won't work otherwise.
That said, I do not completely reject your approach. Charlton equiates the good with (1) Christianity (2) as he sees it. Even *if* one accepts (1), there is room to disagree with him in (2).
Well, I agree that it's important to examine the methods of evil before adopting them. That is as true in "hot war" as culture war. Sometimes the methods of evil are evil methods. But sometimes the methods of evil should be adopted because they are good methods used for evil purposes.
I suppose the disagreement is in which is which. Is what I am prescribing an evil method of evil, or good method used by evil? I think it's the latter.
I will use an example from real war. Was the German blitzkrieg an evil method? No, it was a good method of war devoted to evil ends. Blitzkrieg causes less property destruction, casualties, and civilian loss of life because it wins by speed and maneuver!
Was the US strategic bombing a good method of war? No, it was an evil method of war, that devastated historical populations and places. It was ostensibly devoted to good ends.
By analogy, I am arguing that we should implement a dissident officer corps capable of recon-pulled mission-ordered maneuver warfare, because that's a good method. I'm *not* arguing we should implement a strategic bombing command for top-down obliteration of our foes, because that's an evil method.
"If you think that Putin’s disinformation will help you understand hidden truths that Western leaders want to hide from you, you should be aware that the halfway point between a lie and fact-checked information remains a lie. Please ask yourself why the Russian dictator feels the need to suppress independent journalists at home. Is this the mark of a man who believes in the value of checking facts?"
He would be wiser still to not go anywhere near the place.
https://damianpenny.substack.com/p/rushin-to-russia - "Fast forward to 2024, and it’s disaffected, lonely people on the other end of the political horseshoe looking for utopia far away from America and drag queen story hour and stuff. Some have chosen Hungary, which despite an authoritarian government remains a relatively free-ish country.1 But for the real hardcore, there’s only one place worthy of their high moral standards.
"The Free Press profiles several American suckers dissidents who’ve gone all the way and moved to Russia, and they insist everything there is completely awesome, and don’t pay any attention to the FSB-looking guy over there who looks like he’s packing."
...
"Frohwein is in for a fun time when the Ukrainians take back Crimea.
"Of course, if the experience of this Canadian trad-family is any indication, he’ll probably end up in Siberia long before then"
Oh, I think you're reading into it more than I meant. Lenin wrote his manifesto in exile in Germany. Germany was at that time Russia's major strategic threat and enemy. So, to have Chadimir be in parallel to Vladimir, Chadimir had to write his manifesto in exile, too. I could have picked China or Russia. I picked Russia because that made a nice parallel with Lenin. It wasn't intended as an argument that we should trust/partner with/move to Russia.
As an aside to my regular readers: My wife now has a regularly-scheduled medical appointment on Tuesday which I attend. This has made the Wednesday publication of my essays somewhat difficult due to lack of time. I am contemplating a permanent switch to a Friday publication date for my essays, or taking a one-week hiatus to pre-write an essay over the weekend for the week ahead.
Me & the Boyz Wish Mater all the Best in her treatment & recovery! 🙏 🕌
Inshallah, she will be much better in the coming days with the treatments! 💝 🥰️
Also, go for it Pater! Nothing wrong with taking a hiatus to focus more on Mater! 💖
We'll read it regardless, you just take good care of Mrs Woe.
Wishing Mrs Woe a speedy recovery.
Good luck!
I hope all is well, sir. My best wishes go with her.
There comes a point when Younger Men are no longer cowed by the Ruling Regime's 'Punishments,' Threats, etc. Once there are enough such Men of said disposition, you have the requisite Fearlessness & Courage to (shall we say) try out somewhat more 'audacious things.'
This is especially true for the Younger Bros who are Imprisoned in their Teens to early 20s, & come out in a few months from said forced Summer Vacation. Such experiences Mentally Fortify them & make all Regime talking points (i.e. 'We will Shoot &/or Jail &/or Torture You!') Utterly Moot.
Afterward, all they really need is (1) Proper Training & Know-how & (2) A Reason to Fight. You get both of these, & then it's just a Numbers game culminating in an exciting Field Trip ☺️
Oh, and that big old pot of German gold in the sealed boxcar didn't hurt.
(Fun fact: When I was a grad student, we hosted a Russian physicist at our house for a week. A few hours before he left he was lamenting what had happened to his country. When I told him about the German gold he was incredulous. Alas, the only reference I had handy was a copy of "None Dare Call it Conspiracy." I gave him the copy and he took it to the Soviet Union.
Soon, the Berlin Wall came down, and Vladimir Zhironovsky was a major contender for the Russian presidency. Zhironovsky sounded like he was quoting "None Dare Call it Conspiracy.
Probably a coincidence. But...)
First off, that's an awesome story.
Second, Lenin got the Gold because he was the Man with the Plan!
Maybe Lenin appealed to communists who were willing to act.
The later International Communist Conspiracy recruited primarily based on willingness to act -- which is the subject of my most recent post. https://rulesforreactionaries.substack.com/p/leadership-secrets-of-jesus-and-joseph
I'll take a Doof who acts over a chad who harrumphs.
As I was told when I attended a school at the conservative Leadership Institute: "You are a weirdo." This was addressed to the entire body.
While the number of people who talk politics is huge, the number who actually volunteer to work phone banks, walk neighborhoods, work booths, network with potential affiliate groups, etc. is tiny. This is true even for the major parties. When Ron Paul ran for president as a Republican, a ragtag band of libertarians, hippies and gold bugs filled up enough convention seats to terrify the established powers. They had to rewrite rules as they went in order to keep Ron Paul from speaking to the television audience.
Great points all.
The plan should be two-pronged. On the surface, say things that speak to the hindbrain and promise women, loot, and glory. In private, accumulate wealth and connections to deal in secrets with people of similar influence. Make interpersonal communication great again.
It should also be clear to all within the next few years that all immigrants, in Minecraft, were only ever guests; that everything is money except bank notes; that women will sleep with the winners, but they don’t care who was right; that the rules were written so that those who break them can win—and all of this because we say so. Shift the focus of delta male loyalty away from the rule book.
Well said, sir. (Just signed up for your substack.)
It's an honor, sir.
The emergence of such a theoretical revolutionary movement requires a few things: 1) a coherent theory. It doesn't need to be philosophically sophisticated or even logical, only internally consistant. 2) Simple enough to intice the masses, but subtle enough to be endlessly expanded upon. Complexity is the enemy of successful memes. 3 ) Luck. Like fame and fortune, it's a numbers game. It requires the right person with the right idea at the right time.
Lenin would argue you also need 2.5) a committed group to spread the theory
We can't guarantee 3, but we could do 1 - 2.5!
Please note that if simplicity is involved, when I say "we" I mean "other people"
I didn't include dedicated followers because that's a variable we have no direct control over. Businesses, entertainers, politicians, everyone needs groupies. The question is how to get them. The answer is: clever marketing. Lenin used a 137 page book. We must make due with 60 second TikTok videos. In the 21st century, regardless of the essentials of the movement, we need to SELL it.
Edit is functioning again.
Some suggestions:
- Make sure you always offer a vision of a better future.
- Provide people with a solid, clear framework for understanding the world that can be easily communicated person-to-person, so that when people are having a conversation about some current event someone can explain that event in the context of the framework. Think how well the "nation of immigrants" trope worked and make something similar.
- Constantly shoot holes in the enemy's worldview, make them look like fools. Show them to be hypocrites and liars. Show that their ideas cause real harm to people. Focus on the harm they are doing.
- Aim for converting the top influential people - most people download their opinions about the world from them. You don't have to convince the world, just a handful of powerful people. They will convince the people. Imagine how a single segment on some mainstream news shows (60 Minutes for example) about HBD could change the world forever. Keep pushing until your reach that turning point.
- Don't ever, ever give up. We will win this. History has and will be changed by small dedicated groups of people.
Good points. I agree in full.
Hard to think what any unified theory is as the Right is just made up of those who transgressed some Left taboo at some point in history. We all have little in common except hating the Left. "Inequality" or "health" would be the one defining word I think but hard to see how that shakes out
It's a major problem for us. We're rebels without a cause.
Douglas Hyde’s “Dedication and Leadership” talked about this too. The Lenins / communists of the world asked for huge, sweeping changes - glorious things. No small asks. It worked.
The parallels between the strategies in Dedication and Leadership and the New Testament are the subject of my latest post.
And yes, the techniques are effective. A whole lot of work. But a whole lot of fun.
Wow, apologies for being somewhat off-topic, but I watched your linked TEDx talk years ago, with no idea who you were, and had periodically tried to find it again for clearly and concisely making its point, but had had no luck and gave up at some point. Reading this, I followed the link and was shocked to find "that one talk comparing quality of media to quality of food" was by someone who has become a favorite writer and thinker.
So, thanks very much for the talk and for linking to it!
(Also, thanks for this essay and the follow up, they were great, but I don't have anything substantive to add).
Cheers,
Jeff
Thanks so much for the kind words on my TEDx talk! I'm gratified by the number of people who have mentioned it to me as meaningful or influential. In retrospect (looking at the rise of TikTok etc) it was kind of prophetic... :|
We will gladly suffer the Tree of Woe for a few more days between essays so you can take care of the Mrs. Prayers of hope and healing... :)
Thank you from us both!
All the best to Mrs. Woe.
As for what is to be done, Harold Covington already laid it out, but no one listened and now he's dead.
One way to change the course of history is to change the bribe system.
A bit of imagination: there is a new rule for a post-modern taxation system that emphasizes tolerance, inclusion and respect for all lifestyles and states of mind, in order to enhance the resilience of all the moist robots out there who may have felt excluded from public life all these years of sandbox planned chaos with a fake virus. In perfect harmony with that, it is now allowed for ***individuals only*** (nor corporations, churches or families) to be a conscious objector of any form of taxation, impost, tariff or even fines.
We might (might!) see a rush toward Duginist-inspired praxeologies. (I'm not sure, some people really like their BDSM.)
I argue that, because of the world-famous logical consistency of all social demonrats, they would not become conscious objectors. (LMAOOOOO!)
Therefore, only the people who actually like big government projects will be paying for them, as Wotan intended.
Then, the general bribe system and all its subsystems will collapse, and, after the dust settles, the survivors will have to rethink the entire money loan business.
I imagine that before such blissful postmodern legislative reform would pass, the CDC libertarians and their 33 marks of clotshots in their rubber arms would take exception and quickly snipe everyone with witty articles defending the statue quo, emphasizing the importance of Stoic philosophy of endurance and internal freedom, as well as proclaiming that Aristotelian logic should rule "υπέρ όλα" while conceding a couple of minor points to the right Hegelians. Do not push that red button!
Not-Brahms, but from the Anglo-Saxon sphere of influenza: youtu.be/watch?v=DiIAuPU9Klg
>Lenin was a self-deluded nobody. He was a loser.
Lenin had a very strong personality. And as Adolf von Harnack said in one of his lectures, "Words effect nothing; it is the power of the personality that stands behind them". Maybe that's the lesson we can learn from Lenin.
Wonder if Bruce Charlton is reading this Substack. A footnote from his latest post - https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2024/05/good-only-comes-from-good-motivations.html echoes some of the things people are saying in comments:
"A sign of false allegiance (a Litmus Test, if you like) is trying to emulate (to "learn from") the effectiveness of heroes and exemplars of evil. ("Oh, why can't we be more like [fill in the name of some evil success story]?") In sum: Advocating adopting the methods of evil, on the basis that these tactics have a strong track-record of changing the world, that they work.
This is a Litmus Test of evil allegiance because such people have failed to learn that doing evil and doing good are not symmetrical. Evil is much, much easier than good; because destruction is easier than creation.
It requires hard, prolonged and skilled labour to make a functional machine or a beautiful artwork; but any idiot can vandalize them in a moment."
I do not believe that planning, organization, and philosophy are weapons of the enemy. I hold Dr Charlton in high regard but I disagree with him on this.
Charlton's point is that "planning, organization, and philosophy" of evil is completely incompatible with that of the good.
To a large extent I agree with him: one has to be very careful to examine the methods of evil people before adapting them. It is possible, for example, that you cannot separate the wheat from the chaff and murdering millions is an integral part of the method and it won't work otherwise.
That said, I do not completely reject your approach. Charlton equiates the good with (1) Christianity (2) as he sees it. Even *if* one accepts (1), there is room to disagree with him in (2).
Well, I agree that it's important to examine the methods of evil before adopting them. That is as true in "hot war" as culture war. Sometimes the methods of evil are evil methods. But sometimes the methods of evil should be adopted because they are good methods used for evil purposes.
I suppose the disagreement is in which is which. Is what I am prescribing an evil method of evil, or good method used by evil? I think it's the latter.
I will use an example from real war. Was the German blitzkrieg an evil method? No, it was a good method of war devoted to evil ends. Blitzkrieg causes less property destruction, casualties, and civilian loss of life because it wins by speed and maneuver!
Was the US strategic bombing a good method of war? No, it was an evil method of war, that devastated historical populations and places. It was ostensibly devoted to good ends.
By analogy, I am arguing that we should implement a dissident officer corps capable of recon-pulled mission-ordered maneuver warfare, because that's a good method. I'm *not* arguing we should implement a strategic bombing command for top-down obliteration of our foes, because that's an evil method.
Chadimir would be wise not to trust the intentions of the Russians around him in Moscow.
https://sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/lord-haw-haw-in-the-2020s -
"If you think that Putin’s disinformation will help you understand hidden truths that Western leaders want to hide from you, you should be aware that the halfway point between a lie and fact-checked information remains a lie. Please ask yourself why the Russian dictator feels the need to suppress independent journalists at home. Is this the mark of a man who believes in the value of checking facts?"
https://martinkuz.substack.com/p/from-stalinism-to-putinism
He would be wiser still to not go anywhere near the place.
https://damianpenny.substack.com/p/rushin-to-russia - "Fast forward to 2024, and it’s disaffected, lonely people on the other end of the political horseshoe looking for utopia far away from America and drag queen story hour and stuff. Some have chosen Hungary, which despite an authoritarian government remains a relatively free-ish country.1 But for the real hardcore, there’s only one place worthy of their high moral standards.
"The Free Press profiles several American suckers dissidents who’ve gone all the way and moved to Russia, and they insist everything there is completely awesome, and don’t pay any attention to the FSB-looking guy over there who looks like he’s packing."
...
"Frohwein is in for a fun time when the Ukrainians take back Crimea.
"Of course, if the experience of this Canadian trad-family is any indication, he’ll probably end up in Siberia long before then"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13116159/Canadian-family-russia-bank-frozen-apology-feenstra.html
Oh, I think you're reading into it more than I meant. Lenin wrote his manifesto in exile in Germany. Germany was at that time Russia's major strategic threat and enemy. So, to have Chadimir be in parallel to Vladimir, Chadimir had to write his manifesto in exile, too. I could have picked China or Russia. I picked Russia because that made a nice parallel with Lenin. It wasn't intended as an argument that we should trust/partner with/move to Russia.
Thank you for elaborating on that.